discovering and using your learning styles chapter one

Discovering and Using Your Learning Styles

Chapter One

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Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic Inventory Scoring and Discussion


Characteristics and Learning Strategies for the Three Modalities (Visual)


Characteristics and Learning Strategies for the Three Modalities (Auditory)


Characteristics and Learning Strategies for the Three Modalities (Kinesthetic)


The theory of brain dominance, which includes “right hemisphere thinking” and “left-hemisphere thinking,” adds new dimensions to theories on learning styles, thinking styles, and listening styles. The chart on the next two slides compares some of the characteristics commonly associated with righ-hemisphere and left-hemisphere processing or thinking. As you read the characteristics of each hemisphere, be aware that the two hemispheres of the brain do not work in isolation. The dominant hemisphere takes information in for initial processing, but the dominant hemisphere communications or transfers the information to the nondominant hemisphere as well.

Left- and Right-Hemisphere Thinking

Left- and Right-Hemisphere Thinking (L-Mode)

Left- and Right-Hemisphere Thinking (R-Mode)


Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences


Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences(cont’d)

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